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Science paper piracy site Sci-Hub shares lots of retracted papers
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 08 Jan 2025
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The vast majority of papers that make serious errors and draw the wrong conclusions are never retracted. The sort of people needing to be told to check whether a paper was retracted before citing it are not likely to produce much that's of value even if they do so.